It's a 4chan meme from back in the day. A jr. high kid thought he lost his iPod so he committed suicide, they found the iPod at the bottom of his locker buried under mounds of paper when the school officials cleared it out. On his memorial website some kid wrote "He was an hero." So it became synonymous for suicide on 4chan then across the web. "Go an hero yourself, faggot." "If my girlfriend comes up pregnant, I'm gonna an hero." etc. etc.

It's a 4chan meme from back in the day. A jr. high kid thought he lost his iPod so he committed suicide, they found the iPod at the bottom of his locker buried under mounds of paper when the school officials cleared it out. On his memorial website some kid wrote "He was an hero." So it became synonymous for suicide on 4chan then across the web. "Go an hero yourself, faggot." "If my girlfriend comes up pregnant, I'm gonna an hero." etc. etc.

It's a 4chan meme from back in the day. A jr. high kid thought he lost his iPod so he committed suicide, they found the iPod at the bottom of his locker buried under mounds of paper when the school officials cleared it out. On his memorial website some kid wrote "He was an hero." So it became synonymous for suicide on 4chan then across the web. "Go an hero yourself, faggot." "If my girlfriend comes up pregnant, I'm gonna an hero." etc. etc.

It's from '06, no iPads yet, but look it up, I think it's on knowyourmeme, here's the back story from Urban Dictionary.

The term originated in a poorly written eulogy posted on the MySpace memorial page of a boy who shot himself after he lost his iPod. The poem frequently referred to the boy as "an hero." Though the use of "an" with words beginning with 'h' is acceptable when the letter is silent--as in many varieties of British English--it was incorrect in this case, since the author did not write the rest of the poem in British English. The use of "an" before "hero" might also be inferred to be a careless error from the many other instances of poor style and grammar found in the rest of the source material.